"Actor: Penny"

• The Likely Lads | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Dating from 1976, The Likely Lads belongs to an often-reviled genre--the feature-length spin-off from the 1970s sitcom. However, these were often a great deal better than TV purists make them out to be. The Dad's Army film, for example, more than measures up to the original series, the first Steptoe and Son movie is as sublime as any 1960s kitchen sink drama and much funnier, while this incarnation of The Likely Lads reaches heights of hilarity not even scaled by the splendid sitcom from which it was derived. Starring Rodney Bewes as Bob and James Bolam as Terry, this is an aimless but endlessly entertaining saga that takes in a calamitous caravan holiday in drizzly Northumbria, a farcical escapade in a seaside guest house and innumerable minor capers in between. The real business here, however, is in Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' script and characterisation. Most of their best work involves men in confinement of some sort (Porridge, Auf Wiedersehen Pet) and here it's Bob who finds himself timidly chafing at the clutches of domestic "bliss" as personified by wife Thelma (played magnificently and underratedly by Brigit Forsyth, avoiding all the usual battleaxe clichés). He's jealous of the footloose Terry, even though the latter is clearly frustrated at his rootless existence ("I've learned nothing. Y'know what it'll say on my gravestone? "None the Bloody Wiser"!"). Beyond a mere nostalgia-fest, this is vintage, essential Brit-comedy. On the DVD: The Likely Lads is presented in widescreen 1.78:1. Unfortunately, this comedic milestone comes only with the original trailer by way of extras. --David Stubbs

• Messenger Of Death | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Could a simple feud between brothers lead to the brutal massacre of an entire family? Garret Smith (Bronson) travels to a remote Rocky Mountain town to investigate and uncovers far more sinister motives. As he gets closer to the bizarre truth Smith unravels a plot of greed revenge and religious zealotry. But can he get to the bottom of the murders before an 'avenging angel' visits him with an equally deadly message?

• Diana - The Woman Inside | DVD | (14/08/2017) from £8.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Twenty years after Diana s death, this major new documentary rewrites many of the myths of her legacy. Rather than portraying Diana as unhappy, at war with the Royal family and herself; and suffering a tragically death - we discover an exceptional woman who changed the future of the Royal family forever. With a cast who knew Diana intimately, including Ken Wharfe, Diana's long term Protection Officer, her personal trainer, ballet teacher, spiritual healer and personal friends, Diana The Woman Inside highlights Diana as a woman and mother rather than just a tragic icon.

• License to Kill | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £2.96   |  Saving you £7.03 (237.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Celebrating her high school graduation young student Lynne Peterson is killed by drunk driver Tom Fiske a successful businessman. Her father vowing to see his daughter's killer punished must face a slow-moving legal system and a high-priced defense lawyer...

• Benny Hill - Double Helpings | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Featuring two programmes: 'The Very Best Of Benny Hill' and 'The Crazy World Of Benny Hill'.

• Early Bird, The / Press For Time | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Norman Wisdom reprises his best-loved character, the comically inept Pitkin, in 1965's The Early Bird, ably supported once again by Edward Chapman in his final appearance as Mr Grimsdale. This time around Wisdom is the only milkman working for Grimsdale's Dairy, a small business threatened by a menacing large corporation in the shape of Consolidated Dairies and their electric milk floats. Grimsdale and Pitkin must evoke the Dunkirk spirit to save their family firm from the grasp of the faceless giant. Of course, the wafer-thin plot is the merest excuse for a series of calamitous set pieces in which Wisdom wreaks havoc in his trademark bumbling manner. The best bits involve a disastrous game of golf, the usual shenanigans with a fire hose and a virtuoso tour de force opening sequence as the household struggles to wake up in the morning, all set to Ron Goodwin's tongue-in-cheek music score. --Mark Walker In Press for Time Norman Wisdom offered his version of the crusading reporter movie, though by 1966 time was running out for Norman's style of big-screen comedy. Perhaps a sign of his growing frustration with the formulaic nature of his pictures was that he stretched himself to play not just his usual underdog hero, but also his own mother and his grandfather, the Prime Minister. Wisdom also cowrote the movie in which, as a reporter in a small seaside town, he causes chaos for the council, organises a beauty parade and dresses as a suffragette. Though now nearing the end of his years as a movie star, Wisdom shows himself to still be as polished as ever at his own brand of good-natured slapstick. --Gary S Dalkin

• Danielle Steel's Star | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The death of her loving father shatters 16-year-old Crystal's (Jennie Garth) happy life on a remote ranch. Abused by her bitter mother she's first raped then blamed for the tragic shooting of her younger brother and finally banished from the family home. Alone and penniless she flees to San Francisco and takes a job as a waitress in a night club. Her unique singing talents are soon noticed however and before long she's carving out a sparkling recording career. By chance Crystal meets up with her one true childhood love Spencer Hill (Craig Bierko) who's now engaged to a powerful society beauty. Though infatuated with each other they realise they must go their separate ways - both eventually reaching the pinnacle of their careers. But fame and fortune can never eclipse true love. So when fate finally brings them together again will more than a decade of triumphs and tragedies once more stand in the way of happiness and love?

• PD James' Adam Dagliesh Chronicles | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  A collection of the many cases of Detective Adam Dalgliesh.

• Danielle Steel's Kaleidoscope | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After the shocking death of her parents Hilary (Jaclyn Smith) and her two younger sisters are torn apart and separated for over 30 years. Loving families take in the youngest girls but Hilary is left behind to endure a terrible childhood of cruel abuse and desperate poverty. Yet with iron determination Hilary achieves her dream of success... but erases all trace of her traumatic past. Then approaching death an old friend of their parents hires private detective John Chapman to trace the three women and unite them again. Hilary fights desperately to keep her painful memories buried and as Chapman probes beneath the hardened shell of her life he discovers an anguished and vulnerable woman.

• Penny Smith's Power Yoga | DVD | (01/01/2009) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An introduction to 'dynamic free flow' yoga practise based on the Ashtanga Primary Series.

• The Early Bird | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £16.24   |  Saving you £-3.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Norman Wisdom reprises his best-loved character, the comically inept Pitkin, in 1965's The Early Bird, ably supported once again by Edward Chapman in his final appearance as Mr Grimsdale. This time around Wisdom is the only milkman working for Grimsdale's Dairy, a small business threatened by a menacing large corporation in the shape of Consolidated Dairies and their electric milk floats. Grimsdale and Pitkin must evoke the Dunkirk spirit to save their family firm from the grasp of the faceless giant. Of course, the wafer-thin plot is the merest excuse for a series of calamitous set pieces in which Wisdom wreaks havoc in his trademark bumbling manner. The best bits involve a disastrous game of golf, the usual shenanigans with a fire hose and a virtuoso tour de force opening sequence as the household struggles to wake up in the morning. Wisdom's own brand of Jerry Lewis-inspired clowning, with mugging and pratfalls aplenty, is all good clean fun with little or none of the smutty innuendo that characterised the contemporary Carry On series. He carries this film, as he does all his others, solely on the strength of his winningly naïve charm: this is innocent comedy from the days before supermarkets really did wreck all the local businesses, not to mention from the days before The Godfather gave a whole new spin on the comedy value of going to bed with your horse. On the DVD: There are no extra features on this disc at all. Given Wisdom's household-name status and the longevity of these much-loved movies, this seems like a sadly missed opportunity. The 4:3 picture has not been digitally remastered and shows its age, as does the muddy mono soundtrack. Only Ron Goodwin's wonderfully tongue-in-cheek music score comes across reasonably well. --Mark Walker

• The Little Unicorn | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £20.97   |  Saving you £-11.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When orphan Polly discovers her horse may die giving birth she wishes with all her heart for help from the King of the Horses the Unicorn. As the mare dies she thinks her wish has gone unanswered until she sees the foal... a baby unicorn which totters its way into Polly's heart. When a sneaky photo of the unicorn appears in a newspaper media uproar ensues. Polly's Aunt Lucy (Emma Samms) sends Polly away to boarding school leaving no one to protect the little unicorn except her ageing grandfather (David Warner). He soon has his hands full when bumbling magician 'The Great Allonso' (George Hamilton) decides that the unicorn can restore his failing magic abilities and unscrupulous ringmaster Tiny (Joe Penny) prepares to steal the foal to exploit it in his run down circus. Can Polly and her best friend Toby rescue the unicorn and so free it to work the magic it has come into the world to perform...?

• The Other Side Of Underneath | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Arden's violent and powerful adaptation of her work with The Holocaust women's theatre troupe looks into the mind of a woman labelled schizophrenic - and finds not madness but tortured sexual guilt created by the taboos of society

• The Chocky Trilogy | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Forks: Bitten By Twilight

• Killjoy | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-0.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Deep in an inner city hell a ghastly figure is killing off the bad guys. A vigilante or a demon? For the beautiful high school student Jada that's the question that will bring her face to face with the killer clown Killjoy.

• Lies Before Kisses | DVD | (01/04/2002) from £5.48   |  Saving you £0.51 (9.31%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a prominent businessman is accused of murdering a prostitute his wife turns to an investigative reporter for help in clearing her husband's name. Instead she is drawn into a vacuum of betrayal passion and obsession where no relationship is as it seems...

• Baby Snatcher (Re Release) | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £10.95   |  Saving you £-5.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Baby Snatcher

• Yoga for Beginners | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (40.08%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Brought to you by Penny Smith and Howard Napper yoga for beginners is the ideal way to help you to start to understand and integrate this ancient wisdom into your daily life. Bringing balance and calm to the mind body and spirit leaves you feeling refreshed relaxed and re-energised.

• Space Jam | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  His Airness and His Hareness; what a team! Michael Jordon slams Bugs Bunny jams and a cavalcade of Looney Tunes and NBA stars hoop it up in the rim-rattlin out of this world roundball romp: Space Jam.

• Please Sir! - The Best Of Please Sir! | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £21.28   |  Saving you £8.71 (29.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Featuring the best episodes from series 2 and 3. British comedy at its best 'Please Sir' is fondly remembered by an entire generation of TV viewers. Starring John Alderton as the idealistic teacher Bernard Hedges who is put in charge of the worst class ever come back to school and relive the hilarity with 'Please Sir!'. They're Off: Bernard's class is taking his teaching methods a little too seriously when they place a bet based on what he told them in class. Appalled Bernard has to cancel the bet or the school will cancel him! Common Law: Bernard plays detective after Sharon is molested in the park on the way home from school. Prepared to be surprised because you'll be shocked at the identity of the culprit! Panalal Passes: By The first Parent Teacher Association meeting is a failure when only the parents of the new boy Panalal turn up. But when Bernard organises a second PTA meeting it's not the parents who are too lazy to turn up it's the teachers! The Sporting Life: The sports master has resigned and guess who they get to replace him! Unfortunately Bernard's swimming classes descend into chaos as Duffy's terrified of water and Dunstable just can't seem to keep those unusual swimming trunks on. Norman's Conquest: 5c decide to adopt an animal after watching a wildlife preservation programme. The adopted pet is named after Norman but what exactly is it and will it survive 5c? X Certificate: Determined that 5c will not just be the tea boys this Open Day Bernard and the class make a film about the school. It impresses no-one until a second interpretation catches the attention of a passing journalist... The Decent Thing: When Bernard spends a night with Sharon's mother he doesn't bargain on the consequences such as Sharon telling people that her mother is in the club again. Is Bernard about to have his first nervous breakdown? The Generation Gap: Class 5c becomes socially aware and take to promoting care in the community amongst the older residents. Unfortunately it's not necessarily the students who have to be co-operative as Potter finds out with Mr. De'Ath. The School Captain: The newly founded House system at Fenn Street runs into a few teething problems with election rigging and uncooperative students all whilst Bernard is trying to maintain his own reputation as Housemaster. Out Of The Frying Pan: Mrs. Savage has a rather unorthodox attitude towards lunchtime as she forces all of the school to eat in the local pub then resigns much to the confusion of Cromwell - but then he's never tried her cooking! Mixed Doubles: Abbott narrowly avoids a fight with a local yob but still manages to land a brick through a shop window. Maureen confesses her role to Bernard but will he do the right thing and tell the shopkeepers?